Fire In The North Sky marks 100 Years of Finland

The traditional Finnish story Kalevala was first published as a book in 1835. In it, Elias Lönnrot threaded together many individual "rune poems" or songs into a single text that has gone on to influence the nation's psyche and writers such as Longfellow and Tolkien.

The Finnish ensemble is made up of singer Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Kristiina Ilmonen on flutes, percussion and vocals and Timo Väänänen who plays the kantele, Finland’s national instrument, and pyngyr or Siberian lyre.